Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780367217860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 442 str.

Jens Andermann; Ben Bollig; Lorraine Leu

Opis

This book surveys the most influential themes, concepts, and controversies, which have marked the field in the last twenty-five years. It maps out the field in terms of temporalities, territories, aesthetics, cityscapes, and medialities. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Traves/sia).

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Temporalities  1. War and Cultural Studies: Reflections on Recent Work in Peru and Argentina  2. The Reconfigurations of Post-dictatorship Critical Thought  3. For whom the eye cries: Memory, monumentality, and the ontologies of violence in Peru  4. The Last Sacred Image of the Latin American Revolution  Part II: Territories  5. Hemispheric Domains: 1898 and the Origins of Latin Americanism  6. Patagonia as Borderland: Nature, Culture, and the Idea of the State  7. The Return of Coatlicue: Mexican nationalism and the Aztec past  8. A Short Andean History of Photography: Yawar Fiesta  9. Cuba: A curated culture  Part III: Aesthetics  10. Argentina’s secret poetry boom  11. Tin Tan: the Pachuco  12. (Queer) boleros of a tropical night  13. Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial Brazil: Sepultura and the coding of nationality in sound  Part IV: Affects  14. Sabina’s Oranges: The Colours of Cultural Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1889–1930  15. Mob Outrages: Reflections on the media construction of the masses in Venezuela (April 2000–January 2003)  16. The City Cross-dressed: Sexual Rights and Roll-backs in De la Rúa’s Buenos Aires  17. Conspicuous Consumption and the Performance of Identity in Contemporary Mexico: Daniela Rossell’s Ricas y famosas  Part V: Cityscapes  18. From Urb of Clay to the Hypodermic City: Improper cities in Modern Latin America  19. Obverse Colonization: São Paulo, global urbanization and the poetics of the Latin American city  20. Favelas and the Aesthetics of Realism: Representations in film and literature  21. Amores Perros: Exotic violence and neoliberal fear  Part VI: Medialities  22. Post/Colonial Toponymy: Writing Forward 'in Reverse'  23. Material Culture, Slavery, and Governability in Colonial Cuba: The humorous lessons of the cigarette Marquillas  24. Indigenous media and the end of the lettered city  25. Subjective displacements and ‘reserves of life’

O autorze

Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O’Bryen and David M. J. Wood are Editors of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.